Drug Injury Lawyers

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Drug Injuries pushed on physicians by pharmaceutical companies can cause serious illnesses or injuries, addiction, and tear families apart and devastate communities. Sometimes, a prescription drug or medical device can take the life of someone you love. These pharmaceutical companies need to be held accountable for recklessly putting drugs on the market without first ensuring the safety of those who will be using the medications.

The pharmaceutical drug injury lawyers at Ferrer, Poirot & Wansbrough have the experience necessary to recover due compensation for victims of aggressive pharmaceutical giants and the drugs they produce. If you or a loved one has suffered harm from a drug injury, contact our experienced drug recall lawyers today by filling out a FREE Online Consultation Form or dialing 1-866-429-6490.

When new drugs are rushed to the market, they are largely untested and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) often has to order new warning labels outlining dangerous side effects and reactions to the drugs only to have them recalled months down the line. By the time these drugs are recalled, many users have already been afflicted with painful side effects, addiction, or even died as a result of using a drug they thought was safe.

Drug makers market aggressively to physicians, often pushing drugs that have been tested by doctors hired by the pharmaceutical company itself rather than an unbiased lab. These companies are driven by profit and competition, not the well-being and safety of those who will eventually use the drugs.

Pharmaceutical companies are in it for the profit. They will downplay the negative side effects of these new "wonder drugs" in order to make the sale. In the end, users can have severe reactions to the drug, such as pulmonary hypertension, hemorrhagic strokes, kidney damage or failure, and addiction-which all may lead to death-as a result of taking the drug.

At Ferrer, Poirot & Wansbrough, our drug injury lawyers believe aggressive drug companies need to be held accountable. Contact us immediately if you or someone you know has suffered a pharmaceutical drug injury at (866) 429-6490.

Asthma Medication Dangers

New labels have been required on asthma drugs Advair and Serevent to warn patients that the drugs "may increase the risk of asthma-related death." GlaxoSmithKline, which makes both Advair®and Serevent®, agreed to the new 'black box' warnings-the strongest warning a drug label can carry. [read more]

Avandia®

Avandia®, or rosiglitazone, is a drug used by millions of  Americans to treat diabetes.  Avandia is  specifically used to treat type II diabetes mellitus (non-insulin-dependent,  “age-onset” diabetes) by combating insulin resistance. [read more]

Baycol®

Baycol was prescribed to help lower cholesterol, but it came with the risk of kidney damage or failure. It was taken off the market in 2001. [read more]

Birth Control Patch

Ortho Evra is a birth control patch that is applied to the arms, torso, abdomen, or buttocks once a week and offers the same effectiveness as birth control pills with even greater simplicity. It turns out, however, that women using Ortho Evra are at an increased risk for fatal blood clots compared to women taking birth control pills. [read more]

Chantix®

The anti-smoking drug Chantix® has been linked to depression, suicidal thoughts, and violent behavior in some users, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (1). Government scientists are currently investigating the matter after reports of mood disorders and erratic behavior in some users came to their attention earlier this year. [read more]

Dead Jaw

Fosamax® (alendronate), a medicine that has been on the market for almost 10 years, has been linked to osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ). Otherwise known as "dead jaw," osteonecrosis is a severe condition in which the jaw dies and is unable to regenerate, eventually leading to extreme pain and exposed bone in the mouth. [read more]

Heparin Nationwide Recall

There has been an urgent nationwide recall of heparin units manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. The recall is the result of an increased number of adverse reactions to the drug, some of which may be life-threatening. [read more]

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

HRT's estrogen-progestin drug therapy now has been shown to significantly increase the risks for strokes, breast cancer, heart attacks, pulmonary embolism, and more. Read more about this dangerous drug. [read more]

Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis

The disease is known as Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis or Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy (NSF/NFD), and appears to only occur in patients with kidney disease who undergo an MRI or MRA where a gadolinium-based dye is used. [read more]

Paxil®

On September 27, 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and GlaxoSmithKline notified healthcare professionals of changes to the Pregnancy/PRECAUTIONS section of the Prescribing Information for Paxil to describe the results of a study of major congenital malformations, which are physical body or organ malformations existing at birth. [read more]

Permax®

The Parkinson's disease drug Permax® (pergolide) has been recalled from the market by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after reports that the drug is linked to serious and potentially fatal heart valve damage in some users (1). [read more]

PPH

Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH) is a rare, progressive disorder characterized by high blood pressure (hypertension) of the main artery of the lungs (pulmonary artery). The pulmonary artery is a blood vessel carrying oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle (one of the heart's pumping chambers) to the lungs. In the lungs, the blood picks up oxygen, then flows to the heart's left side, where the left ventricle pumps it to the rest of the body through the aorta. [read more]

Seroquel®

Seroquel (quetiapine) is pharmaceutical drug in the class of atypical antipsychotics approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1997. Antipsychotic drugs are used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia which include hearing voices, seeing things, sensing things that are not there, mistaken beliefs, and paranoia (1). Seroquel is also used in the treatment of mania associated with bipolar disorder.[read more]

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS)

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is a condition described by resulting severe skin reactions that include rashes and blisters that can progress to third-degree burn-like intensity. SJS may result from many causes, though adverse drug reactions are often reported in conjunction with the condition. Pfizer, Inc. removed Bextra® from the market in April 2005 for this reason. [read more]

Trasylol®

Trasylol®, a medication frequently used during heart surgery to control bleeding, has been found to double the risk of kidney failure in patients. An estimated 10,000 people are forced to undergo dialysis each year after receiving the drug, which was approved by the FDA in 1993. Trasylol, generically known as aprotinin, is manufactured by Bayer AG and had projected sales estimates of more than $600 million in 2006. [read more]

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